After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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Heavily redacted document regarding detainee prosecutions and transfers. The memo notes that, “the FBI recommends DOJ disagree with the DOD recommendation regarding the following detainee,” with the remaining information redacted.
Emails between State Department officials with attachement entitled "DC BM 040604 - MEK Corruption…" no attachment included.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Waldo W. Brooks
Aaron W. Jost | Scott W. Busby | Michael Miller
Waldo W. Brooks , Aaron W. Jost, Joshua L. Dorosin, Jonathan S. Carpenter
Questionnaire asked the Chaplain a number of questions regarding Detainee operations. Chaplain responded that he/she was not aware of detainee abuse. [Contents redacted].
Questionnaire asked the Sergeant First Class forty one questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. [Contents redacted].
Questionnaire asked the First Lieutenant twenty-three questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. In re whether detainees reported abuse, the First Lieutenant responded "Complained all the time, so not ...
Questionnaire asked the Chaplain a number of questions regarding Detainee operations. Chaplain responded that detainees could not bring in their Koran. Described a "rumor" in which "big guys in with interrogators in for psychological threat. . ...
Questionnaire asked the First Lieutenant a number of questions regarding detainee operations, soldier morale and soldier training, among others. First Lieutenant responded that he/she was not aware of detainee abuse. [Contents redacted].
An Army questionnaire, including thirty-seven questions, given to a soldier regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The officer expressed his/her ...
A video captured what appears to have been a killing of an injured non-combatant. The events are as follows: A black sedan crashed into a wall, the driver fell out of the driver's door and lay wounded on the ground. The man was seen moving his ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Physical assault
Records of JAGMAN investigation Preliminary Inquiry into the death of Farhad Mohamed Ali. Includes a summary of the finings and a series of the emails regarding the status of the investigation, as well as CID records. Summary of findings states ...
June 30, 2006
Investigative File
Farhad Mohamed